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pt. I. Representations : is Hillary man enough? Is Barack black enough? Is Michelle the new Jacqueline Kennedy? -- pt. II. Historical precedents, or How election 2008 began before the Civil War -- pt. III. Legacies : democracy undermined? Feminism redefined?

"This chapter reviews research on emotional effects of political news and ads. Starting with definitions of affects, moods, emotions, and arousal, political media effects on affective reactions are conceptualized. It is argued that both specific content and formal features can elicit affective responses via three different processes: empathetic responding, contagion, and emotion induction. These processes can result in affects, arousal, and various specific emotions (e.g., fear, anger, sadness). Although research has identified several moderating factors the chapter also points to the fact that affective reactions to media content are not without consequence on, for example, political attitudes and behavior. Furthermore, affective effects are not only short-term, but can also have long-term consequences. Because of that, from a normative perceptive, the affective influence of political information is a double-edged sword that deserves more scholarly attention in the future." (publisher's description)

The cognitive science of religion that has emerged over the last twenty years is a multidisciplinary field that often challenges established theories in anthropology and comparative religion. This new approach raises many questions for biblical studies as well. What are the cross-cultural cognitive mechanisms which explain the transmission of biblical texts? How did the local and particular cultural traditions of ancient Israel and early Christianity develop? What does the embodied and socially embedded nature of the human mind imply for the exegesis of biblical texts? ""Mind, Morality and Mag

AbstractThis article advances a new account of security as an intensely relational and ontologically entangled phenomenon that does not exist prior to, nor independently of, its intra-action with other phenomena and agencies. Security's 'entanglement' is demonstrated through an analysis of the protracted security concerns engendered by 'dangerous' scientific experiments performed with lethal H5N1 flu viruses. Utilising methodological approaches recently developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), the article explicates the intensely 'co-productive' dynamics at play between security and science in those experiments, and which ultimately reveal security to be a deeply relational phenomenon continuously emerging out of its engagement with other agencies. Recovering this deeper ontological entanglement, the article argues, necessitates a different approach to the study of security that does not commence by fixing the meaning and boundaries of security in advance. Rather, such an approach needs to analyse the diverse sites, dynamics, and processes through which security and insecurity come to intra-actively materialise in international relations. It also demands a fundamental reconsideration of many of the discipline's most prominent security theories. They are not merely conceptual tools for studying security, but crucial participants in its intra-active materialisation.